Kharkiv today. Don't ask, I have no clue.

The Trump admin has indicated to Ukraine that US security guarantees are contingent on Kyiv first agreeing a peace deal that would likely involve ceding the Donbas region to Russia… Scoop with FT comrades @maxseddon.bsky.social @henryjfoy.ft.com @a-mackinnon.bsky.social

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

In 1916, Denmark sold the Danish West Indies to the USA for $25M, with the colony becoming the US Virgin Islands. The USA was worried Germany could take control of the islands, though they had no plans to do so. In exchange, the USA acknowledged Denmark's complete sovereignty over #Greenland

If you're following the unbuilding of CBS News, there's a development. @brianstelter.bsky.social says the Inside CECOT report is to air tonight, "according to sources at CBS." view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/176... This part interested me most: "The promised interview did not materialize."

Trump wants everyone to believe he needs to take Greenland to protect the US from the guy he made American soldiers roll out the red carpet for in Alaska.

Jens Spahn relativiert mal wieder die rechtsextreme autoritär-expansionistische Politik von Donald Trump und findet unterstützende Worte für ihn. Man muss das ernst nehmen. Wir dürfen nicht so tun, als wäre es nicht klar wo die Reise bei Jens Spahn - Fraktionsvorsitzender der Union - hingeht.

"Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING - TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!... HELP IS ON ITS WAY" - Trump.

Das Zurückweichen von Friedrich Merz ist gescheitert. Und die Trump-Anbiederung von Jens Spahn schadet Europa. Donald Trump versteht nur Stärke und Klarheit. Jetzt ist Zeit: In Europa gemeinsam den Rücken gerade machen und mit Gegenzöllen antworten. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Finally, Europeans are taking to the streets to protest against the American aggression against Europe. But it should not have taken this long. And it should not only be in 🇩🇰🇬🇱. If you want your leaders to to stop their supplication to Trump and fight for you, then you need to tell them.

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug - A BUSY, BUSY ICE ENFORCEMENT OPERATION with apologies to Richard Scarry - Brought to you by the rough and ready Inner Hive, including long-time member Brady Marsh and new member SquirrelSaver7. ( bit.ly/theInnerHive ) - READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

From ever-brilliant @rubenbolling.bsky.social another great cartoon. See original here bsky.app/profile/rube... And reminder that a certain SCOTUS member will be immortalized for something other than "I like beer!" We should use his name in every account of these skin-color-based roundups.

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

It is in no way “law enforcement” to beat up an American 10th grader and steal and sell his possessions.

I remember a time when this headline would have been in The Onion, not Financial Times

5/ “PayPal Mafia member Ken Howery remains one of four general partners at Founders Fund, the VC firm he launched with Peter Thiel and Luke Nosek following PayPal's acquisition in 2002.” www.forbes.com/profile/ken-...

3/ Peter Thiel backs Praxis through Pronomos Capitol.

2/ This is a reply to Dryden’s post (above). Note Dryden’s response.

👀 Praxis is a Thiel-backed “network state” project that aims to build its OWN COUNTRY. In Nov, Praxis founder Dryden Brown wrote about wanting Greenland 4 Praxis. In Dec, Trump named Thiel partner Ken Howery as ambassador to Denmark & said the US shld buy Greenland. Praxis & Dryden are thrilled...1/

This is DIABOLICAL! And I thought eating ostriches was.

Russian propagandist Solovyev: "America's military budget is $1,5 trillion. And for us, it would be very beneficial if it were a war with Europe. And we would be ready to help Trump liberate Greenland from this alien influence. Why not?"

Stephen Miller Torched Over His ‘Utterly Chilling’ Message To ICE Officers Critics slammed the top Trump official’s remarks as a “greenlight for abuse.

New in PN: Trump's plot to intimidate the Fed backfires bigly "His thuggish DOJ may have actually made it harder for the White House to exert control over the central bank. Remember back in 2017 when Trump’s supporters said he was playing 10-dimensional chess?"

Ich recherchiere gerade zu Medien und ihren Präsenzen auf X. Die Tagesschau holt mit ihren 5,1 Millionen Followern bei manchen Tweets gerade mal 2 Retweets und dann 15 Replies, die durch die Bank rechtsradikaler Bullshit sind. Was machen die noch da? Was soll das bringen?

Cut ties with US Big Tech - European alternatives for digital products. Find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products. 🇪🇺 Hosted on servers in the #EU 🇪🇺 Servers are operated by EU based companies (incl. parent companies) european-alternatives.eu

Our interview w DHS Secretary Noem www.cnn.com/2026/01/11/p...

From "Live Free or Die" to "Obey or Die" And a movie that explained how it happens. #USA #Trump #uspoli open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Nicht einmal der ORF schafft es, zu erwähnen, dass die von Svazek empfangene AfD-Sachsen-Anhalt vom Verfassungsschutz als "rechtsextreme Betrebung" eingestuft wird. Stattdessen wird die Beliebtheit der Partei hervorgestrichen. So werden rechtsextreme Kräfte salonfähig gemacht. Korrektur von mir.

These are absolutely monstrous people "Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior DOJ officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent"

“The President of the United States is a criminal. He’s not just a convicted criminal. He should have been convicted for the crimes he led on January 6th. He is running the government like a mob operation.“

FYI: Judge Ellis (Chicago ICE case) noted in November that video evidence shows ICE "brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force."

TAPPER: Does your rhetoric need to change? FREY: I said this was a federal agent recklessly using power that ended up in somebody dying because that was a federal agent recklessly using power that ended up in somebody dying. I got two eyes.

JB Pritzker: “I have encouraged the public to have your phones at the ready, video everything, bring us your documentation, tell us your stories, make sure that we have witness testimony — so that when we are able to hold them accountable, we will be able to do it because we have the evidence”

Still waiting for those Epstein files to be released

JFC. A guy murdered a woman and it’s on Frey to “bring down the temperature?”

Auchincloss: "When you have a badge & gun and you are interacting with a citizen who has committed no crime, the onus of responsibility is on you to exercise good judgment. Nobody watching that video will buy the argument that he had no other resort other than to shoot her in the face 3 times."

This is open white-supremacist fear-mongering, just a reminder to boycott anything tied to Elon Musk.

💥On Saturday, Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party congress aired short video endorsements from far-right and right-wing leaders worldwide: 🇪🇸 Abascal, 🇮🇹 Salvini & Meloni, 🇦🇹 Kickl, 🇵🇱 Morawiecki, 🇩🇪 Weidel, 🇫🇷 Le Pen, 🇮🇱 Netanyahu, 🇦🇷 Milei, 🇷🇸 Vučić, 🇨🇿 Babiš. Notably absent: Donald Trump / JD Vance. Why?

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

"Die dänische Ministerpräsidentin Mette Frederiksen hat derweil gewarnt, dass eine amerikanische Übernahme Grönlands das Ende der Nato bedeuten würde. Außenpolitiker Armin Laschet sieht es ähnlich." 🇪🇺 muss sich zu den Vereinigte Staaten von Europa entwickeln oder es wird geopolitisch zerquetscht.

I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

"The real question is what right does the US have to assert control over Puerto Rico? What is the basis of their territorial claim? What is their basis of having Puerto Rico as a colony of the US?"

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”